Participatory Strategic Plan for El Pan
The Participatory Strategic Plan for El Pan Canton was an initiative that took place between 1998 and 2000 with the purpose of promoting the decentralization of local administration and transferring its scope to community organizations. The project was promoted by the International Union of Local Authorities (IULA), together with the Municipality of El Pan Canton, the University of Azuay UDA and the Ecuadorian Populorum Progressio Fund (Span. FEPP). The initiative has been implemented based on social concentration, which has facilitated a high level of involvement by citizens, as well as their incorporation into the decision-making process and the realization of this project. This model of joint management between the Municipality of El Pan Canton and the resident population emerged from the need to face the problems faced by the region, which included poverty, malnutrition, unemployment, illiteracy, violence and corruption, among others. Among the results obtained, we highlight the improvement in the living conditions of the population, improvements in coordination among local actors, improvement of institutional capacity and positive changes in the decision-making process.
Institutional design
Formalization: is the innovation embedded in the constitution or legislation, in an administrative act, or not formalized at all?
Frequency: how often does the innovation take place: only once, sporadically, or is it permanent or regular?
Mode of Selection of Participants: is the innovation open to all participants, access is restricted to some kind of condition, or both methods apply?
Type of participants: those who participate are individual citizens, civil society organizations, private stakeholders or a combination of those?
Decisiveness: does the innovation takes binding, non-binding or no decision at all?
Co-governance: is there involvement of the government in the process or not?
- Formalization
- only backed by a governmental program or policy
- Frequency
- single
- Mode of selection of participants
- open
- Type of participants
- citizens
- Decisiveness
- democratic innovation yields a non-binding decision
- Co-Governance
- yes
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